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In Thailand's Tham Hin camp, a UNHCR staff member captures the iris scan of a refugee from Myanmar for the new biometrics system.

Children play in an alley at a refugee camp near the Libyan capital Tripoli that now hosts internally displaced people from the town of Tawargha, south of Misrata.

Patrick Ky (right), executive director of the European Aviation Safety Agency, during the meeting with the transport committee.

A young internally displaced girl carries her sister at the marine academy near Tripoli.

A view of an IDP camp in Al-Jamea, Baghdad, where 97 families from Anbar Governorate have found temporary shelter.

The ongoing conflict in Yemen is having a devastating impact on the country’s health system, and exposing millions of children to the threat of preventable diseases, says UNICEF.

Burundian families settle in for their first night in Nyaragusu refugee camp, Tanzania.

A boat carrying Burundian refugees arrives in Baraka, Democratic Republic of Congo.

An elderly woman waits among a crowd of other Burundian refugees for assistance in Rwanda’s Mahama Refugee Camp.

Stepping above the furious confrontation with banking powers over "Greek debt," Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras observed on June 15: "I'm certain future historians will recognise that little Greece, with its little power, is today fighting a battle beyond its capacity, not just on its own behalf but on behalf of the people of Europe."